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""Abernathy provides a truly accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to geodata and geolocation covering both the conceptual and the practical. It is a must read for students or researchers looking to make the most of the spatial elements of their data"" - Luke Sloan, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Cardiff University Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences: Mapping our Connected World provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the Geoweb with clear, step-by-step guides for: Capturing Geodata from sources including GPS, sensor networks and Twitter Visualizing Geodata using programmes including QGIS, GRASS and R Featuring colour images, practical exercises walking you through using data sources, and a companion website packed with resources, this book is the perfect guide for students and teachers looking to incorporate location-based data into their social science research.

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Having an understanding of geography is essential for scholars across all the disciplines in the Social Sciences following the data revolution, the rise of 'big data' and the increasing salience of utilising naturally occurring data as a way of augmenting our understanding of how we interact in the social world. In response to this, Abernathy provides a truly accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to geodata and geolocation covering both the conceptual and the practical. It is a must read for students or researchers looking to make the most of the spatial elements of their data. -- Luke Sloan This book provide an insightful perspective on the geoweb, exploring a diverse range of applied geodata examples. Applications tackle interesting and current data issues, such as crowdsourced geographic data and harvesting geolocated social media information for assisting geospatial decision-making. This allows for relatively technical concepts to be highly accessible to the reader. The work-through examples link effectively to geostatistical analysis of data providing an excellent basis for communicating fundamental notions of the geoweb to students. This book provides a great primer for better understanding geolocated information. -- Eloise Biggs

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